• Design and Composition
• Pinterest Still Life
• 30 Examples of Still Life Photography
• You have homework.
  

• Take 4-8 still life photos with your cell phone and post them to the Facebook Group.  
• Four of the photos should have a symmetrical composition and the other four should be asymmetrical.  
• Make sure the horizontals and verticles are parallel to the top and sides of the picture plane.  
• Post these photos to our Facebook group by the midnight before next class.
• If you do not yet have a Facebook account or for some reason are really adverse to it, you can send your photographs and photos of your finished work, by email them to me. Kenney.Mencher@gmail.com
  

• We're working with your photos today.  Please have a way to look at them in class. The best way is probably to have them on a laptop or a tablet. Second best is to print them out. Third best is on your phone. (It's just kind of small.) 

• Project: Draw as best you can one to three of your still life photographs, in your sketchbook, using one of the following, a pencil, a marker (sharpie), or some kind of pen.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Different Techniques and Mediums for Drawing from the Still Life Photographs you have taken.  
• You will need your still life photos, your sketchbook, pencils and or markers.
• The first half of class, I’m going to show you how to measure, and map out the shapes that make up the objects in a composition. Then you will use this technique to lightly sketch out in pencil you’re still life and then go back over it to define the drawing.
• Discussion qualities of line and formal elements.
• Measuring and laying in forms.
• More resources for measuring.
  
• The second half today will be to draw as best you can one to three of your still life photographs in your sketchbook using one of the following, a pencil, a marker (sharpie), or some kind of pen.
• Transparent construction contour line drawings.
• Contour line drawings without construction lines.
  
• Photograph your drawngs with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• How to Draw a Face
• Video: Sketching the Head and Face in wash media
• Demo Single Portrait (Joy Anne Delight))
• Demo Portraits (Two Figures)
• Video: Drawing the Skeleton Frontal

• You will need your photos, your sketchbook, pencils and or markers, a watercolor or acrylic brush (you're going to draw with these) and some black or brown watercolor or acrylic paint, a paper or plastic cup (container) to hold water for diluting paint and rinsing brushes.  A rag or a bunch of white paper towels or napkins.
• Photograph your drawings with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  
• Watch this video about linear perspective for next class
• Read
• Perspective
• http://www.mcescher.com/

• Perspective
• All week: One Point Perspective Rendering in Class
• In class on your on your phone. Find or take a photograph that is a good demonstration of one point perspective.  Then draw it.  Due Sunday night at midnight.
• Photograph your drawing with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• All week: Two Point Perspective Rendering in Class 
• In class on your on your phone or computer. Find or take a photograph that is a good demonstration of two point perspective.  Then draw it. Due Sunday night at midnight.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  
• Homework read:
• Photorealism
• Alicia Rose
• Grid and Transfer Demo

• Grid and Transfer
• Demo of Grid and Transfer
• You will need your photos, your sketchbook, pencils and or markers.  You will also need a ruler.
• The paint stuff is optional.
• We are going to learn and use grid and transfer to layout one or two still life drawings and then go back over them using one or more of the techniques that you have experimented with in class.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  
• Homework read:
• Demo drawing the sphere
• Demo Drawing the Cube
• The Baroque Style: The Caravaggisti
• Cotan 

• Value
• Shading Basic Shapes
• You will need to print out a pdf or download it to your tablet or computer, (looking at it on your phone will be hard) your sketchbook, pencils and or markers.
• At the end of class, you should have completed 2-5 drawings today.  
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  
• Homework read:
• How to Draw a Sphere, Pencil, Cross Hatching with Marker, and Charcoal
• How to Draw a Cube, Pencil, Cross Hatching with Marker, and Charcoal

• Hatching
• Complete 2-5 drawings today.  
• Draw and render the basic shapes using hatching and cross hatching in your sketchbook using a variety of the media you have.   (Pencil, charcoal, crayon, or wash)
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Draw and render one or two of your still life photos in your sketchbook using a variety of the media you have.  (Pencil, charcoal, crayon, or wash)
• Think about using some of the measuring and layout systems you learned earlier to block in your compositions.  
• Render the objects using a variety of the techniques you've learned.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Painting a Still Life in Monochrome
• You will need a paintbrush or two and black and white acrylic or gouache.
• Monochromatic paint handling.
• Make a painting (or two) of one of your still life photos using grays and a white and a black.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Sketchbook using one of the following, a pencil, a marker (sharpie), or some kind of pen.
• Complete 2-5 drawings today.  
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Patterns using a brush to draw
• Sketchbook using brushes and wash media.
• Complete 2-5 drawings today.  
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Monochromatic Patterns Opaque Paint
• You will need a watercolor sketchbook, a paintbrush or two, and black and white acrylic or gouache.
• Demo of paint techniques.
• Make two or three patterns using two grays, a white, and a black.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  
• Homework read:
• Color Basics

• Color
• Color lecture and mixing.
• Color Theory and Patterns
• Make two or three patterns each using two primary colors, a shade, and a tint.  
• In the text part of the post, explain which two primary colors you used, name the hue used in the tint and name the hue used in the shade.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Talk on Light and Color in art.
• Make two or three patterns each using a warm color, a cool color, a shade, and a tint.
• In the text part of the post, explain which two hues you used for the warm and cool, name the hue used in the tint and name the hue used in the shade.  
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Still Life Collage
• Matisse
• Picasso
  
• Make two to three still life collages from the photos of still life you made.  You can use a combination of the still life drawings, patterns you painted and mixed media (paint, marker, pencil etc.)
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Calligraphy and Text Basics
• Physical media/calligraphy
• You need either a calligraphy pen or a wedge tipped marker.

• Design an alphabet either using photographs, computer graphics and or physical media (marker, paper, collage, paint, etc.)

• Visual Style and Text
• All week text design project.
• In your post describe what your initial concept was in your project, why the font you used looks like it does, and what your goal was.
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.  

• Working with Concept: Memes, infographics, or political posters,
• Design one or two memes, infographics, or political posters, either using photographs, computer graphics and or physical media (marker, paper, collage, paint, etc.)
• Write in your sketchbook or type on your computers or phone.
• What concept are you trying to express?
• Who is your target audience, and why would this be important to other them?  
• What are you trying to do in terms of font choice, composition, shading, and color?  For example, what do your choices about the font, composition and other shading and color choices "express" about the main idea?  
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.   
• Answer the questions below in the text of your post.
• What were you trying to do in terms of font choice, composition, shading, and color?
• What concept are you trying to express?
• Who is your target audience, and why would this be important to other them?  

• Book and or Magazine Cover Design
• Design the front and back of a book cover either using photographs, computer graphics and or physical media (marker, paper, collage, paint, etc.)
• The book can be real or made up. This can be part of the next project which is too design a magazine spread or a comic book/graphic novel, or a short children's book.
• Write in your sketchbook or type on your computers or phone.
• What concept(s) are you trying to express?
• Who is your target audience, and why would this be important to other them?  
• What are you trying to do in terms of font choice, composition, shading, and color?  For example, what do your choices about the font, composition and other shading and color choices "express" about the main idea?  
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.   
• Answer the following in the text part of your post.
• What were you trying to do in terms of font choice, composition, shading, and color?
• What concept are you trying to express?
• Who is your target audience, and why would this be important to other them?

• Final Project: Design a magazine spread or a comic book/graphic novel, or a short children's book.
• Design a magazine spread or a comic book/graphic novel, or a short children's book  using photographs, computer graphics and or physical media (marker, paper, collage, paint, etc.)
• The book can be real or made up. This can be part of the next project which is too design a magazine spread or a comic book/graphic novel, or a short children's book.
• Write in your sketchbook or type on your computers or phone.
• What concept(s) are you trying to express?
• Who is your target audience, and why would this be important to other them?  
• What are you trying to do in terms of font choice, composition, shading, and color?  For example, what do your choices about the font, composition and other shading and color choices "express" about the main idea?  
• Photograph them with your cell phone and post it to this group on Facebook by the midnight before next class.   
• Answer the following in the text part of your post.
• What were you trying to do in terms of font choice, composition, shading, and color?
• What concept are you trying to express?
• Who is your target audience, and why would this be important to other them?

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